Quote Originally Posted by mackie View Post
My stone looks and feels like a 12 K . Really smooth, you know. However when honing It made a gritty almost scraping sound. I kept flushing the razor and hone thinking I had somehow got some grit on it. It did not feel like it had grit on it. It just sounded gritty.
Interesting. I had flattened mine, finishing with a very worn DMT. Using only water, it was very smooth to hone on. I did not feel any grittiness.
Now slurried up, it felt like sand was on it!